Friday, May 13, 2011

Getting Scary

That's the second story of the cathedral you're looking at here; the street level is far, far below.

Of course, the Corps keeps assuring us that New Orleans will be safe...probably. That's after they put up this map to scare the bejesus out of us:

**My house is in one of those areas colored for flooding of depths from 25 to 40 feet. Seriously? And everyone down here has soooo much faith in the Army Corps of Engineers. As for what's happening to the west of us, in Cajun country...it's just heartbreaking.

I need drugs.

(Photo by Matthew Hinton. He describes how he took the shot here, since, believe it or not, some people are trying to dismiss it as Photoshopped.)

Paz, yes, that has helped enormously. They're no longer talking 40 feet of water. We drove over the Bonnet Carre spillway on Saturday and it was beyond amazing.

Barbarb, thank you.

Steve, we went to Audubon Park to look at the river yesterday, and heard a Fe Do Do as we were walking up to the levee. Seems there was a "Steam Fest" planned for the weekend, and they went ahead and had it--within view of the flooding river. It's a crazy place.

Melinda, it's been such a tragedy for so many people--and so many animals.

About Me

A former university professor with an incurable case of wanderlust, I write the Sebastian St. Cyr Regency mystery series under the name of C.S. Harris and thrillers as one half of C.S. Graham. I’ve also written historical romances as Candice Proctor.